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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [220v] (445/738)
The record is made up of 1 volume (365 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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434 JUDAEA AND THE SOUTHERN DESERT
5-8 miles in breadth. The region consists principally of soft
chalky limestone forming groups of hills or downs inter
sected from E. to W. by a succession of main wadis from the
mountains of Judaea, the groups being again intersected
by N.-S. transverse shallows and fertile valleys. Viewed
as a whole, these hills present the aspect of an amphitheatre
encircling the plain of Philistia on the E.
The Shephelah, as a hill group, is separated from the main
Central ridge by a well-defined chain of broad and shallow
valleys—W. es-Sur, the plain of Es-Sant and W. en-Nejil—
running N. and S. from
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Selman to near Beersheba and
W. Ghazzeh; it is flung off as it were from the main system
into an independent group. Geologically the area has
a certain counterpart in the soft low hills which separate the
Central Range and Mt. Carmel, further N. (see p. 502 f.). In
some of the main cross valleys of the Shephelah are some
almost perennial water-courses and their bottoms consist of
broad pebbly beds intersected with patches of alluvial soil
which produces good corn. The terebinth and sycomore
fig are characteristic trees. Inhabited villages are frequent in
the district; but the unusual number of ruined cities scattered
all over the Shephelah shows that it was once more thickly
populated than it is now.
The Coastal Streams and Western
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Basins .—It would
be misleading to describe the streams of Southern Syria which
run into the sea south of Haifa, as rivers in the ordinary
acceptance of the term, with the possible exception of the
N. el-'Auja which, fed by strong springs, enters the sea a few
miles north of J affa; nor may they be described with certainty
as directly draining the Central ridge of Judaea and Samaria.
Robinson and others have regarded most of these streams
as deriving the bulk of the volume of their waters from direct
outflow from the very numerous wadis of the western slope
of the ridge; more recent observers, however, including
Dalmaij hold the view that no considerable amount of water
reaches the sea direc t from the mountain country even in the
ramy season and consider these water-courses purely as outlets
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Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor , Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).'
'Contents. Chapters:
- I. Boundaries and Physical Survey, p 9 (folio 7)
- II. Climate, p 24 (folio 14v)
- III. Minerals, Flora and Fauna, p 93 (folio 50)
- IV. Military History, p 109 (folio 58)
- V. Inhabitants, p 175 (folio 91)
- VI. Turkish Administration, p 236 (folio 121v)
- VII. Agriculture, p 252 (folio 129v)
- VIII. Industry and Trade, p 276 (folio 141v)
- IX. Currency, Weights and Measures, p 318 (folio 162v)
- X. Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 325 (folio 166)
- XI. Country East of Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 344 (folio 175v)
- XII. Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and Damascus Plain, p 357 (folio 182)
- XIII. River Systems of Northern Syria, p 395 (folio 201)
- XIV. Judea and the Southern Desert, p 427 (folio 217)
- XV. Samaria (including Carmel), p 472 (folio 239v)
- XVI. Galilee, p 515 (folio 261)
- XVII. Haurān and Jaulān, p 556 (folio 281v)
- XVIII. 'Ajlūn and Northern Belqa, p 580 (folio 293v)
- XIX. Southern Belqa and Ardh el-Kerak, p 612 (folio 309v)
- XX. El-Jibāl and Esh-Shera, p 636 (folio 321v)
- XXI. The Ghōr (Jordan and the Dead Sea); and Wādi 'Arabah, p 645 (folio 326)
- Appendix: Conventional Spellings, p 668 (folio 337v)
- Index, p 669 (folio 338)
- Plates, p 725' [missing]
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (365 folios)
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The volume contains a contents page (folio 6) and an index (folios 338-365).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence. The volume originally contained fourteen plates showing maps, bound into the back of the volume. These are now missing; details of the plates can be found at folio 5v.
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- 'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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